Our elastic boo-words are creating a frenzy

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A poker face? Or a politically correct reluctance to joke about mental
incapacity? The Observer reported straight-faced last Sunday that “a
senior Brussels official said: ‘We always hear that the UK has special
demands but never that Europe has special needs’. ”

The Spectator managed a poker face too. It concluded its review of the
week, which began with a report of the Church of England’s rejection of
women bishops: “The Rt Revd Ellinah Wamukoya was elected the Anglican Bishop
of Swaziland, the first woman bishop in Africa.”

Sub-Saharan Africans do not have a cultural problem with women being in
authority.